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From: obrien@randvax.UUCP (Michael O'Brien)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: "The Party"
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Date: Fri, 25-May-84 12:32:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 25 12:32:47 1984
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I would never have remembered "The Party" if not for an unusual circumstance.
My father is a Carnegie Tech alumnus (that's what it was when he was there)
and even back then, it had an extremely good, extremely active Theater Arts
department as well as a huge engineering department.  For some reason,
the engineers and theater arts majors hung around together a lot (would that
the "two cultures" still did - CMU folks, do they still do this?).

When I saw "The Party" with my father on first release, he suddenly sat up
straight, about a third of the way through the film, and said "Hey!  I know
that guy!  He had hair when I knew him!"  Apparently the party guest extras
were not really extras, but were the Hollywood crowd of that time (producers,
etc.) who would, in fact, normally attend such a party.  This fellow was
someone my father knew who had gone to Hollywood after graduation and become
a producer.  My father can testify that it's a real surprise to see someone
you know suddenly pop up on the big screen.